noun:

• claw crane; arcade game in which a crane is used to pick up stuffed toys, etc. - From English "crane game"

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to cool down; to get cold
• to cool off (excitement, temper, etc.); to subside; to dampen; to fade; to wane
• to be cold (eyes, expression, etc.); to be composed

noun / ~する noun:

• filling (up); replenishing; filling in (tooth); loading (gun with ammunition, camera with film, etc.); packing; plugging

noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

noun:

• working on a day off (to make up for lost time, or to make an impression)

noun:

• early evening; dusk; lamp-lighting time; lighting-up time

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to evade (questions); to reply evasively; to beat around the bush; to throw up a smoke screen

noun:

• device; contrivance; mechanism; gadget
• trick; trap; calculated manipulation; gambit
• (small) scale; half finished
• commencement; initiation
• set up; laying out; preparation
• challenge; attack

noun / ~する noun:

• management; dealing with; settlement; cleaning up; disposal

noun:

• course of events; circumstances; particulars
• end result (usu. bad); outcome

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• economizing; economising; frugality; being thrifty

noun:

• leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Sumo, Martial Arts term
• foothold; pedal

adverbial noun:

• nearly (used to estimate a period of time by rounding up incomplete units) ➜ 丸【まる】

expression:

• if even the most crooked person is surrounded by good people, he will straighten up as does mugwort growing in a hemp field

noun:

• several men, several minds; everyone has his own ideas and tastes; everyone has his own interests and ideas; different strokes for different folks - colloquialism - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; junction; joining
• union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging; coming together

~と adverb:

• gurgling; burbling; bubbling; sound of water mixing with air (e.g. water welling up, pouring water, drain pipe, gushing forth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• blow striking with the flat of the sword
• to slap ➜ 平手打ち
• metal flattened by striking
• tape; flat braid
• type of flat ornamental hairpin made of silver and inscribed with a clan's crest or patterns of birds and flowers ➜ 簪

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to build; to construct; to erect
• to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to kindle; to build a fire
• to instigate; to stir up; to incite

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to round up; to gather; to muster; to mobilize; to mobilise

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stir up; to instigate (somebody to do something); to agitate; to foment ➜ アジテーション

interjection:

• your pardon; sorry; no thanks

noun:

• not wanting; objecting to; being fed up with; wishing to avoid - usu. 〜はごめんだ
• permission; leave; dismissal; discharge

noun:

• booth or stall set up on the sidewalk in front of a shop or home (esp. food booths at festivals) - Kansai dialect ➜ 床店【とこみせ】・出店【でみせ】

noun / ~する noun:

• playing around; having an active sex life; casual homosexual sexual activity - esp. gay sex ➜ 発展【はってん】

noun:

• (gay) cruising spot; (gay) pick-up joint (e.g. bar) - abbreviation ➜ ハッテン場

noun / ~する noun:

• opening (a door, window, etc.); leaving open
• opening up (e.g. to the public); allowing (public) access

noun:

• giving an amorous sidelong look; casting an amorous glance (at); playing up to someone behind the scenes - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up